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Welcome to RBCS, Inc.
Dear
Reader,
Welcome to the March 2012
newsletter. I hope this year is turning out as successful for you as it is
for us at RBCS.
Are you interested in
building quality applications? Since you are reading this newsletter, I
bet you are. If you have a few minutes, check out the short article I have
included on this topic here.
Our webinar program, in its
third year, continues to be a growing success. We've had almost 15,000
registrations for these free, 100% educational events. We have one running
this week, and hope you can attend. What if you can't make it? No
problem. You can always watch a recorded version on our Digital
Library. Of course, by attending the live broadcast, you qualify for our
free e-learning drawing, and, when applicable, PMI PDUs. You can find
more details in this newsletter.
Do you have an e-book
reader? Are you getting into reading books on a screen? I
am reading more books this way lately. We've decided to expand our online
store to include a whole line of e-books. Keep your eyes open for an
upcoming e-book from me on testing metrics, improving your test processes,
and creating higher quality applications. Details are found
below.
Do you have a topic you'd
like to discuss with me? Check out my blog at www.rbcs-us.com/blog. I've included a lot of
information on hot testing topics there. If you want to comment on a post,
please do. I'll post your comment, and typically I'll respond. If
you don't see a topic you want to discuss, send me an e-mail at info@rbcs-us.com.
Finally, if you're in the
San Antonio or Austin area, you can meet RBCS face-to-face at the InnoTech
conference. I'll be there, along with RBCS Vice President, Laurel Becker,
and RBCS Account Manager, Angie O'Connor. Let us know if we can
expect to see you there.
Regards,
Rex Black,
President
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Complimentary
Webinars
Did you
miss the complimentary February webinar, "Managing Quality
within Budget and Schedule Constraints: Successful and Unsuccessful
Techniques"? Check out what you missed!
Webinar attendees are automatically entered into a
drawing to win their choice of one of our green e-learning courses.
Visit our training
page to see
the complete webinar schedule, or just look on this email, sign up for a
webinar, show up at whichever webinar session is most convenient, and--who
knows--you might be the lucky winner of some valuable free training.
Either way, you're sure to learn something.
Congratulations Loreene
Kemperman, an attendee of the February 2012 webinar, for
being selected as the winner of an e-learning course!
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How
to Build Quality Applications
Testing is an excellent means to build confidence in
the quality of software before it's deployed in a data center or released to
customers. It's good to have confidence before you turn an application loose on
the users, but why wait until the end of the project? The most efficient
form of quality assurance is building software the right way, right from the
start. What can software testing, software quality, and software
engineering professionals do, starting with the first day of the project, to
deliver quality applications?
The first step in building a quality application is to
know what you need to build. An amazingly large number of projects get
underway without clarity amongst the project stakeholders about what the
requirements are. According to Capers Jones' studies, as many as 45% of
defects are introduced in specifications. One working definition for
quality is "fitness for use." If we're unclear on the intended uses, how
can we build something that is fit for use? Not only do we need some
specification of the requirements-whether formal or informal-but we should also
conduct a thorough project stakeholder review of this specification to look for
defects and to build consensus and understanding.
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RBCS Store
Debuts E-books
The RBCS
store, RBCS Testing Resources
Marketplace, now carries e-books! Over the past couple of months
we have been behind the scenes adding this department to our online store.
Like the rest of our products, the e-books are dedicated to the topic
of software testing and QA. With the growing popularity of e-books, expect
this department in our store to expand quickly. Over the next few months
we will be adding authors and titles so visit us frequently!
Our current
titles include:
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Advanced Software Testing Vol. 1 | |
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Advanced Software Testing Vol.
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Advanced Software Testing Vol. 3 | |
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Fundamentos de Pruebas de
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Our e-books
are in EPUB format. They may be read on a variety of devices including
Windows� or Mac� computers; Android, Apple, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7
mobile devices. Note that the Amazon Kindle series of devices does not
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People
are Talking about RBCS
"I really appreciate the
organization making an exception here. Our experience with Rex Black has
been superb, from the training materials to the customer service, all of it has
been exemplary."
Joshua Carlson, CTFL
Test Lead-CI
Fireman's Fund Insurance
Company
"I am so excited to
say that I scored a 92% in my CTFL exam on the 18th of this month (only 3 wrong
out of 40 questions). I want to thank
RBCS for creating such wonderful courseware. I also referred to the attached
e-book which enhanced my learning even more. Rex Black is a wonderful teacher
and I am eager to learn a lot more from him."
ISTQB Foundation Level E-Learning Course
Registrant |
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Complimentary Webinars
Earn 1.5 PDUs for
this course
March 21,
2012
Earn 1.5 PDUs for
this course
April 3,
2012
Earn 1.5 PDUs for
this course
May 22,
2012
Earn 1.5 PDUs for
this course
June 14,
2012
Earn 1.5 PDUs for
this course
July 3,
2012 |
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E-Learning Courses
Earn 22.5 PDUs for this course
US$ 899
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Certification
Public Courses
Test Engineering
Foundation Level
Earn 22.5 PDUs for this course
April 23-26, 2012
Phoenix, AZ
June
11-14, 2012
Toronto, Canada
Advanced Test
Manager
Earn 32.5
PDUs for this course
March 26-30, 2012
San Jose, CA
May 21-25, 2012
McLean, VA
April 23-27, 2012
June
4-8, 2012
Austin, TX
(an
IREB, IIBA and IBAQB exam preparation course)
Earn 18 CDUs for this course
April 17-19, 2012
San
Jose, CA |
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